Weekly photo competition runner up, 01 November 2012: “Bumper wheat harvest in Kenya!"
This week’s runner up in our photo competition for CIMMYT staff and friends is Bhoja Basnet, post-doc in the Global Wheat Program. He took this photo during a visit to Njoro, Kenya in September 2012. CIMMYT works together with the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) in a crucial partnership on rust resistance at KARI’s Njoro Research Station.
Says Bhoja: “Kenya's farmers are benefitting from new rust-resistant, high-yielding wheat varieties. In the picture, we see the harvest of newly-released wheat variety Robin, grown in a farmer’s field for seed multiplication. According to the grower, in the 2012 season he harvested more than 4 metric tons per hectare (or 20 bags per acre in the local system) without herbicide application. This yield is way above the previous year's record of about 2 to 2.5 tons per hectare (10-12 bags per acre). This depicts one of the most recent impacts of CIMMYT’s wheat breeding program, which often aims to breed durably resistant, high-yielding wheat lines and them make available to national breeding programs (especially those of developing countries) for testing and release as varieties.”
Photo credit: B. Basnet/CIMMYT.
Weekly photo competition runner up, 01 November 2012: “Bumper wheat harvest in Kenya!"
This week’s runner up in our photo competition for CIMMYT staff and friends is Bhoja Basnet, post-doc in the Global Wheat Program. He took this photo during a visit to Njoro, Kenya in September 2012. CIMMYT works together with the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) in a crucial partnership on rust resistance at KARI’s Njoro Research Station.
Says Bhoja: “Kenya's farmers are benefitting from new rust-resistant, high-yielding wheat varieties. In the picture, we see the harvest of newly-released wheat variety Robin, grown in a farmer’s field for seed multiplication. According to the grower, in the 2012 season he harvested more than 4 metric tons per hectare (or 20 bags per acre in the local system) without herbicide application. This yield is way above the previous year's record of about 2 to 2.5 tons per hectare (10-12 bags per acre). This depicts one of the most recent impacts of CIMMYT’s wheat breeding program, which often aims to breed durably resistant, high-yielding wheat lines and them make available to national breeding programs (especially those of developing countries) for testing and release as varieties.”
Photo credit: B. Basnet/CIMMYT.